Though this was an interesting article:
Pressure mounts on Geelong as Chris Scott’s detractors line up | Jonathan Horn | Sport | The Guardian
Particularly this part!
In 2007, Max Rooke found an old flask made of animal hide in an African secondhand shop. He gathered his teammates and asked them to write down their dreams and goals. He then lit a candle, set the papers alight, tipped the ashes into the flask and waxed it shut. “It was our religion,” he said years later, echoing George Costanza in the Opposites episode. “It was something to believe in.” Rooke went and became a human wrecking ball. The Cats barely lost a game for five years.
Thanks for that, neilfws. I liked the link to this article - When it comes to finals footy, does a home-ground advantage really make a difference? - Sport - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) - and the reference to Scott's "Krakatoa act in the box" too.
And funny that you quote the bit about Max Rooke. I keep hearing his name lately. One player, I can't remember who, was saying that he was their favourite player growing up (before they went on to become a champion at a different club). I've looked him up on Wikipedia now but didn't know who he was.
Fell on his sword so that all the other useless Old Boys at the Crows keep their jobs after the two reviews are done.
Watch the presser, their Chairman Rod Chapman is a slimy uninspiring character much hated by their supporters. He says that everything is rosy at the Crows, well WTF are you conducting two reviews then idiot?!
Easton Wood, who is a very good player, has got off lightly on a number of occasions. When Isaac Heeney took that huge mark v Bulldogs earlier in the year, Wood collects him with his knee after he his the ground. It stunned Isaac - nothing done about it, similar to the hit in 2016 GF on Kieren Jack- no 50 metre penalty of course.
Something of a twist ahead of the Friday game! Rioli suspended.
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/...12-p52qr5.html
And now I see GWS Football Director Jimmy Bartel wearing his football media personality hat making comments about
the Rioli case. He was blah-ing on about something else last week. He has an official position at one club but is making
comments about issues at other clubs. At this rate he'll be as inappropriate as McGuire one day. Can't these blokes just
have one job?
I think the Eagles are cooked by the rioli incident. Not that a flag was dependent on one player, but the destabilising effect of this on the eve of an away final.
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Yeah, he is wide open for criticism. But in all honesty I welcome a voice from Sydney. Every other team has vocal administrators pushing agendas, why no 'us' ( or at least, our city).
Anyone else watching Australia vs. Spain before the footy? The Spaniards want no part of going up against Bogut in the paint.
I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his time
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